“We want to say emphatically that the District’s gun-control laws, as have been outlined by many law-enforcement experts, are a critical part of the District’s public safety strategy and have been so for more than 30 years,”

Seriously, that’s really funny. Can he say that with a straight face? How many times has D.C. been the murder capital of the United States in that thirty years? And who are these “many law-enforcement experts”?